Abstract: The physico-chemical properties of a material, such as a metallic alloy, can be understood as a function of its electronic structure and the relative positions between its atoms. The surface is a particular case in the material, due to the break of periodicity in the direction perpendicular to the surface this can affect the structural and electronic properties of the material. It is particularly important to know the position of the atoms in the crystalline lattice. In the bulk of a material this can be measured using techniques such as rays-x diffraction. For the surface this task is much more complicated. Surface alloys represent new materials and their development is of great interest both from the academic and technological point of view. The present body of work presents a study of the electronic and geometric structure of surface alloys; grown by MBE on well-characterized monocrystalline surfaces. XPS and RHEED were used to characterize the dynamics of growth, and LEED (qualitative) and Photoelectron Diffraction did the structural determination of surface alloys. For the particular case of ordered surface alloys we also present a theoretical first principles structural determination using Density Functional-Theory. This dissertation shows three systems: Pd on Cu(111), Cu on Pd(111) and Sb on Pd(111)